Rudiments of English Composition

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Page 10 The pronoun I, and the interjection O. IX. Generally the name of an object
personified. I ExERCISES. Correct the errors in the following passages:— I. The
love of praise should be kept under proper subordination to the principle of duty.
in itself, ...

Page 16 Restlesness of mind disqualifies us, both for the enjoyment of peace, and for the
performance of duty. The arrows of calumny fall harmlesly at the feet of virtue.
The road to the blisful regions is as open to the peasant as to the king. A perverse
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Page 17 Correct the errors in the following passages:— I. The love of praise should be
kept under proper subordination to the principle of duty. in itself, it is a useful
motive to action; but when allowed to extend its influence too far, it corrupts the
whole ...

Page 17 Restlesness of mind disqualifies us, both for the enjoyment of peace, and for the
performance of duty. The arrows of calumny fall harmlesly at the feet of virtue.
The road to the blisful regions is as open to the peasant as to the king. A perverse
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Page 18 Plain honest truth needs no artificial covering. To live soberly righteously and
piously comprehends the whole of our duty. Vicissitudes of good and evil of trials
and consolations fill up the life of man. Health and peace a 18 PUNCTUATION.

Page 94 - Alas, poor Yorick! I knew him, Horatio; a fellow of infinite jest, of most excellent fancy. He hath borne me on his back a thousand times. And now how abhorred in my imagination it is! My gorge rises at it. Here hung those lips that I have kissed I know not how oft.

Page 41 - A brute arrives at a point of perfection that he can never pass : in a few years he has all the endowments he is capable of; and were he to live ten thousand more, would be the same thing he is at present.

Page 56 - Tis hard to say, if greater want of skill Appear in writing or in judging ill ; But, of the two, less dangerous is the offence To tire our patience, than mislead our sense. Some few in that, but numbers err in this ; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss : A fool might once himself alone expose : Now one in verse makes many more in prose.

Page 56 - To tire our patience than mislead our sense : Some few in that, but numbers err in this; Ten censure wrong for one who writes amiss ; A fool might once himself alone expose ; Now one in verse makes many more in prose. Tis with our judgments as our watches, none Go just alike, yet each believes his own.

Page 94 - I cannot but imagine the virtuous heroes, legislators, and patriots, of every age and country, are bending from their elevated seats to witness this contest, as if they were incapable, till it be brought to a favourable issue, of enjoying their eternal repose. Enjoy that repose, illustrious immortals...